4.09 Personifications and abstractions

Capitalize vivid personifications and metonymic nouns:

• the march of Time
• Fate’s fool
• the Chair (the person in charge of a meeting or assembly)
• the Crown (the person or agency representing a king or queen)

Abstractions are sometimes capitalized when used in an ideal sense. As general concepts, however, they are lower-cased:

• We know that Justice is blind.
• Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that is all
  Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
  — John Keats

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